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The construction menu – it will open in the lower icon bar – is of high importance to any patrician. It allows you to build roads, manufacturing works, and various kinds of other buildings. Read more about construction in chapter 10. This icon allows you to change to the sea chart. Click on it to return to the city. The options menu behind this icon differs only slightly from the one in the main menu, as it offers some additional functionality (‘save game’, ‘load game’ and ‘end game’). The News Menu Here you will find all the highly important letters that the authorities have sent to you, letters that you’d better not ignore. This includes overdue notices, court orders, seizures, and tax assessments. Such bad news always reaches you immediately. Some things never change… This is where your personal news is listed, i.e. news about trade, businesses, and ships. You will be informed when your ships or buildings are completed, how an automatic sea battle ended, etc. Simply click on any message to read more. Some of the news in this folder will be written in handwriting, which tells you that this is a personal letter that only you are to receive. Such private letters will reach you without a delay. Here you can browse current trade information. Successful traders need to organize their letters well. This menu allows you to configure how long certain news or letters will be saved and whether you should be notified by a sound when you receive them. 19
Get rid of superfluous and outdated messages. If you want to delete a message, first click on the message in question and then click on this icon. Alternatively, press the ‘Del’ key. The Construction Menu Aside from your ship, the trading office is perhaps your most important tool to aid you in your quest for social ascent (not counting your wits, of course). You need to have a trading office in a city before you can construct other buildings. Also, you can only trade with a city in which you don’t have one of your ships docked if you own a trading office there. The trading office is the place where all the goods you buy or sell are stored (provided that you don’t trade directly with your ship). Moreover, all personal information regarding a particular city, e.g. your wife’s popularity, is gathered in your trading office. Therefore, you should do your best to build trading offices in as many Hanseatic towns as you can. Here you have the option to build roads, merchant’s houses, gabled houses, half timbered houses, wells, and hospitals. Once you have decided what you want to build, you receive further information on the costs, the build time, the material requirements, how much of each material you already have in stock, and what materials you will have to buy. Using the ‘raw materials’ button you can manage all your buildings that produce raw materials, such as the fisherman’s house, the corn farm, the cattle farm, the sawmill, and the hemp farm. Just select one of these building types to display information about the construction costs and time. Here you will find a list of all businesses that process raw materials to produce more refined products. Provided that you have all the necessary resources, you can build all of these buildings, which include the workshop, the salt maker, the brickworks, the forge, etc. Again, to get further details, click on the type of business. The construction of city walls and watchtowers is reserved for the municipality. Therefore, this menu will not be accessible until you are elected mayor of the town. 20
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Page 3 and 4: Trade: your daily Business 37 Trade
Page 5 and 6: Technical Support Should you experi
Page 7 and 8: The Structure of the Screen The Dif
Page 9 and 10: Symbols Using the symbols on the mi
Page 11 and 12: Trading via your trading office If
Page 13 and 14: The Formalities: The Main Menu and
Page 15 and 16: The Objective Conditions You decide
Page 17 and 18: Credits The usual suspects… Exit
Page 19: The Mini Map The mini map gives you
Page 23 and 24: The Statistics Menu Open the statis
Page 25 and 26: Note: Ships that are part of convoy
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Page 29 and 30: Cog capacity: 45-55 weapon slots sm
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Page 33 and 34: Automatic Trade As soon as you have
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Page 37 and 38: Blocked Convoys The conditions for
Page 39 and 40: Luxury Goods Wine, spices, cloth, t
Page 41 and 42: On the other hand, if you buy goods
Page 43 and 44: Festivals People want to celebrate
Page 45 and 46: Putting up a Building If all condit
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Page 49 and 50: Upgrade Ship You will soon find out
Page 51 and 52: If you select this option, you will
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Page 55 and 56: The Money Lender Banks as we know t
Page 57 and 58: The Town Hall All towns in the game
Page 59 and 60: Auctions This option allows you to
Page 61 and 62: Bribing pays - but only for a short
Page 63: City walls Every city has city wall
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However, good deeds are short-lived
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Your reputation has little to do wi
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The mayor must spend the taxes the
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The next day you will be informed o
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If a majority is in favor of the bo
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False Accusations Life isn’t fair
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Swords that are stored in your ship
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The speed is also influenced by the
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However, if you are the leader, you
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Initial Actions The Besiegers take
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The consequences of defeat are diff
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To configure a multiplayer game, se
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The game is set up in the same way,
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Testers Adrian von Pokrziwnitzki Ma
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Appendix Mouse Controls ships left
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Goods beer pottery iron goods (brow
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